4 min learnNew DelhiAug 27, 2026 09:10 PM IST
Actor Dia Mirza has spoken about coming from a conservative household in Hyderabad, moving into Bollywood with the 2001 dream debut Rehnaa Hai Terre Dil Mein, after which hitting a number of pace bumps in her profession. In a current interview, Dia recalled one such problem — taking pictures the track ‘Mujhe Tumse Mohabbat Hai’, by which she needed to ‘strip naked’ in entrance of virtually ‘100 males’. The actor additionally admitted that whereas she was initially not assured in her physique, the problem formed her inventive journey forward.
Throughout a dialog with Bollywood Bubble, she recalled filming the passionate love monitor with Emraan Hashmi, of their film Tumsa Nahin Dekha (2004). “It sort of liberated me in ways in which I’d have by no means imagined. And the boldness with which I used to be capable of carry out the track got here from, after all, the truth that Vaibhavi Service provider, who’s the choreographer of the track. And everybody engaged on it made me really feel so protected. However it was presumably one of the troublesome issues that I’ve ever finished as a lady. As a result of I needed to strip naked, virtually all the way down to underwear and a bra, in entrance of a whole lot of males on set,” she shared.
Dia continued, “And it might have felt like a really… how do I clarify it? It felt, nevertheless it didn’t, as a result of by then, by the point we shot the track, I had grow to be so conscious of how essential it’s to seek out an actor’s character fact and what you might be conveying via a personality, that it didn’t matter to me whether or not there have been 500 individuals or 1,000 individuals within the room.” The movie was primarily based on love and the household strain between a wealthy boy (Emraan) and a bar dancer (Dia). It was impressed by the Hollywood basic – Fairly Lady.
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The actor expressed that the expertise refined her craft and extra such challenges made her what she is right now. “And I really feel like there are many issues like that which can be linked to earlier elements of my profession which have knowledgeable the artist that I’ve grow to be right now. And if I’m capable of convey nuance and texture, or like a lived fact, to a second, it comes due to the issues that I’ve been capable of overcome inside myself over this journey of 25 years. And I believe it’s additionally a steady course of, proper? Hopefully, I’ll continue learning, and I’ll hold getting higher,” she shared.
Daring scenes Then Vs Now
When requested about performing daring roles or scenes then vs now, Dia Mirza replied, “Waise characters utne likhe nahi jaate the, particularly mainstream format mein. In fact, maine aisi movies mein bhi kaam kiya hai jahan par… Lete? (Such characters aren’t written anymore within the mainstream format) Tumsa Nahi Dekha, which was impressed by Fairly Lady, was very curiously finished. It was a really fascinating movie for me to work on. As a result of I all the time truly suppose again to that movie, and I consider how liberating it was as an expertise.”
She additional added, “As a result of there have been numerous, , preconceived ideas aur concepts that I shed once I labored on that movie. I used to be a lady who got here from Hyderabad. I got here from a really conservative background. And, I used to be very, I wasn’t so assured in my physique. That movie made me actually assured in my physique, as a result of there may be that one track, ‘Mujhe Tumse Mohabbat Hai.’ That basically unshackled me.”
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On the work entrance, Dia Mirza was just lately seen within the Netflix collection, Operation Safed Sagar. The present was primarily based on the Indian Air Pressure’s (IAF) aerial mission through the 1999 Kargil Struggle. It featured an ensemble solid, together with Jimmy Shergill and Siddharth.
